Career
Prior to his appointment to the Tenth Circuit,Hartz had a record of experience both in public service and private practice. He was an assistant United States attorney for the District of New Mexico from 1972 to 1975,and thereafter spent a year as an assistant professor of law at University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign,Illinois. He served on the Governor of New Mexico's Organized Crime Prevention Commission from 1976–1979,first as counsel,then as executive director. After that,he was in private practice for nine years before serving as a judge and chief judge on the New Mexico Court of Appeals from 1988 to 1999,during which time he authored approximately 300 opinions. [2] He then returned to private practice at a law firm,serving as Special Counsel to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,where he worked with the union to develop a code of conduct and an internal system for compliance and enforcement. [3]
Notable cases
- Riviera Drilling &Exploration Co. v. Gunnison Energy Corp. et al.,No. 10-1081 (10th Cir. 2014) –In an unpublished order and judgment written by Judge Hartz,the Tenth Circuit affirmed the lower court's dismissal of a $100 million antitrust case against an energy company accused of setting artificially high prices for its gas pipeline in Colorado.
- United States v. Heineman,767 F.3d 970 (10th Cir. 2014) –In a first amendment free speech case,Defendant Aaron Michael Heineman e-mailed a hateful poem to a University of Utah professor. In an opinion written by Judge Hartz,the Tenth Circuit adhered to the view that Virginia v. Black required the district court to find that Defendant intended to instill fear before it could convict him of violating 18 U.S.C. §875(c).
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